Re: alsa

Sorry about the slow answer, the machine is at the office. Itried to play two files: one wav and one mp3. The player (at least the xmms) is set to alsa. My wm is fluxbox. And the user is in the audio group. The kernel is 2.6.15-ARCH.

Re: alsa

As a good policy, I commented out all the modules and daemons related to sound, and started from scratch. I loaded the modules with an "_" instead of a "-" ( doesn't know if it makes a difference, because in the alsa page of my soundcard (intel810)
it appears with a "-" , and modprobe anwers to both.

Then i altered the volume of Master and PCM channels in alsamixer. The sound came out!! So, the problem was somewhere in my /etc/rc.conf.
First, I enabled the modules in it. After adjusting the mixer mannualy, the sound works. But, when i enabled the alsa daemon in rc.conf the sound disappeared, even with the channels on the mixer on.
I switched the alsa daemon with the alsamixer script , which is almost the same as alsa, and it worked.